Peterskapelle (Freising)

Peterskapelle around 1700, pen drawing by Peter Ellmer around 1800

The St. Peter Chapel was a Catholic chapel on the Domberg in Freising .

The chapel was only a few meters away from the entrance of the Freising Cathedral and the collegiate monastery of St. Johannes . The chapel, built in the first half of the 9th century, was the burial place of Bishop Erchanbert († 854), which he wanted at this point. Little is known about the building until the 18th century.

Peter's Pact & Brotherhood of St. Peter

In common concern with Bishop Johann Franz Eckher of Kapfing and Liechteneck around the diocese clergy Philipp Franz Lindmayr founded in 1719 (Diözesanvisitator and canon of St. Andrae ) to Peter pact , which two years later to the Brotherhood was charged.

End of the chapel

In the course of secularization , the church became the property of the Electorate of Bavaria on November 27, 1802 . After the church was closed on December 31 of the same year, the Erchanbert bones were transferred from the marble tumba to Freising Cathedral on April 19, 1803 . Then the building was demolished. Today there is a wooden cross ( crucifix on the Domberg ) on the site of the chapel .

literature

• Sigmund Benker / Marianne Baumann-Engels: Freising. 1250 Years of the Spiritual City - Exhibition in the Diocesan Museum and in the historic rooms of the Domberg in Freising, June 10 to November 19, 1989 . Wewel Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-87904-162-8 , p. 143 f .

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 56.7 "  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 44.1"  E